The Pandemic Is Wreaking Havoc in America’s Prisons and Jails
Three months ago, Kai Wright, the host of WNYC’s the United States of Anxiety, joined David Remnick for a special episode about the effects of mass incarceration and the movement to end it. Now, as the...
View ArticleChance the Rapper’s Art and Activism, and the Perils of Prison Reform
Chance is one of the biggest stars in hip-hop, and one of the most political musicians working today. In the midst of nationwide protests for racial justice, he talks with David Remnick about his...
View ArticleThe Perils of Prison Reform
In the past few years, there has been a growing bipartisan demand to reduce the extraordinarily high rate of incarceration in the United States, on both moral and fiscal grounds. But some of the key...
View ArticleThe Perils Prison Reform, and the Vision of a Visually Impaired Artist
In the past few years, there has been a growing bipartisan demand to reduce the extraordinarily high rate of incarceration in the United States, on both moral and fiscal grounds. But some of the key...
View Article30 Issues: How Big A Step Is The First Step Act?
Ekow Yankah, professor of law at Cardozo Law School, discusses the First Step Act—a criminal justice bill aimed at reforming sentencing laws, reducing recidivism and decreasing the federal inmate...
View ArticleArchitectural Alternatives to Prison
Prisons and jails are designed to confine and punish. Hence the barbed wire, metal bars, solitary confinement, and often inhumane conditions. Today, Deanna van Buren, director of the architecture firm...
View ArticleInjustice In Prisons and Imagining Alternatives to Incarceration, Immigration...
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare some of the biggest injustices of mass incarceration in America. Scott Hechinger has been a public defender in Brooklyn for almost a decade and is currently the...
View ArticleBig Tech; Mask-Wearing Best Practices; Design and Prisons; Black History in...
On today's show:Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's Political Gabfest podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and...
View ArticleDoes More Staff Mean Less Violence Inside Jails?
Every Tuesday evening through May 4th, The Greene Space and the non-profit advocacy organization Worth Rises are holding virtual panel discussions about the business side of the prison industry,...
View ArticleAlbany News; Equity & Vaccinations; 13th Amendment; Gen Z on Gender & Sexuality
On today's show:Karen DeWitt, Capitol bureau correspondent for New York State Public Radio, talks about the legislature's response to the accusations against Gov. Cuomo and how the controversy might...
View ArticleHow Companies That Sell Equipment To Prisons Affect How People Are Treated
When companies sell supplies to prisons, does their influence over inmates' lives stop with the inventory?On Today's Show:Bianca Tylek, Worth Rises’s executive director, and WNYC/Gothamist reporter...
View ArticleThe Digital Panopticon
Every Tuesday evening through May 4th, The Greene Space and the non-profit advocacy organization Worth Risesare holding virtual panel discussions about the business side of the prison industry, asking:...
View ArticleHow Prison Phone Companies Profited During the Pandemic
Every Tuesday evening through May 4th, The Greene Space and the non-profit advocacy organization Worth Rises are holding virtual panel discussions about the business side of the prison industry,...
View ArticleWhen Prison Is Also Your Bank
Every Tuesday evening through May 4th, The Greene Space and the non-profit advocacy organization Worth Rises are holding virtual panel discussions about the business side of the prison industry,...
View ArticleThe Injustice of Prison Food
Every Tuesday evening through May 4th, The Greene Space and the non-profit advocacy organization Worth Rises are holding virtual panel discussions about the business side of the prison industry,...
View Article24 Days on a Bus: The Torturous World of Prison Transport
Every Tuesday evening through May 4th, The Greene Space and the non-profit advocacy organization Worth Rises are holding virtual panel discussions about the business side of the prison industry,...
View ArticleAs Mass Incarceration Becomes Less Popular, The Market for 'Community-Based'...
Every Tuesday evening through May 4th, The Greene Space and the non-profit advocacy organization Worth Rises are holding virtual panel discussions about the business side of the prison industry,...
View ArticleWhat Makes a Murderer?
One night in the spring of 2005, Anissa Jordan was sitting in a car in San Francisco while her boyfriend attempted to rob a young man nearby. Shortly after, police arrested both Anissa and her...
View ArticleOn the Inside Looking Out
The past year most of us were awash in a news cycle driven by the pandemic. Daily we grappled with infection data, vaccine updates, social restrictions, and public officials trying to balance fatigue,...
View ArticleFormer Gov. Paterson; Reformers Leading Jails; NYC Public Schools Plan;...
On today's show:David Paterson, former governor of New York, talks about Gov. Cuomo's resignation through the lens of his own experience as New York's governor and his long experience with politics in...
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